Mirza Muhammad Ali Saeb, also known as Saeb Tabrizi and Saeb Isfahani, was born in 1592 in Tabriz. Numbered among the finest poets of the Subk-e-Hindi style of Persian poetry, he traveled to India in 1626 and reached the court of Mughal Emperor Shah Jaha'n. After that he traveled to Kabul and Kashmir and finally returned to Isfahan. King Shah Abbas conferred the title of Malikul-Shu'ara (Poet Laureate) to Saeb Tabrizi. Saeb passed away in Isfahan in 1676.